Sheldon Reback

Sheldon Reback is CoinDesk editorial's Regional Head of Europe. Before joining the company, he spent 26 years as an editor at Bloomberg News, where he worked on beats as diverse as stock markets and the retail industry as well as covering the dot-com bubble of 2000-2002. He managed the Bloomberg Terminal's main news page and also worked on a global project to produce short, chart-based stories across the newsroom. He previously worked as a journalist for a number of technology magazines in Hong Kong. Sheldon has a degree in industrial chemistry and an MBA. He owns ether and bitcoin below CoinDesk's notifiable limit.

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Finance

Billionaire Alan Howard’s crypto incubator WebN closes down

WebN backed innovative digital asset firms like KAIO, Twinstake, TruFin and Geometry.

Gautam Sharma, CEO & CIO, Brevan Howard Digital (Consensus)

Finance

Circle shares surge by record 35% as USDC issuance drives estimate-busting earnings

The issuer of the USDC stablecoin posted EPS of 43 cents for the fourth quarter, beating the consensus estimate of 16 cents. The shares surged 35%.

Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Circle Speaks at Hong Kong Fintech Week in 2024 (HK Fintech Week)

Finance

U.S. Senator opens probe on Binance over alleged $1.7 billion flow to Iranian entities

Richard Blumenthal sent Binance co-chief Richard Teng a letter asking him for records about the exchange’s dealings with Iran-linked entities and the alleged dismissal of its investigators.

Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Harold Mendoza/Unsplash)

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Markets

Crypto rebounds from oversold levels, altcoin season indicator revisits January high

Bitcoin rose as much as 3.7% overnight before paring gains, while altcoins outperformed and the altcoin season indicator hit its highest level since January.

Hands rest on the keyboard of a laptop showing trading graphs, data. (Kanchanara / Unsplash modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto firm with U.S. bank charter holds bitcoin holder Strategy's preferred stock

Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered U.S. crypto bank, has added perpetual preferred stock in bitcoin treasury firm Strategy to its balance sheet.

Nathan McCauley, co-founder and CEO of Anchorage Digital at Consensus 2025.

Finance

Stripe's Bridge sees stablecoin volume quadruple as utility insulates from 'crypto winter'

The payments giant says Bridge, its stablecoin arm, saw its transaction volume sky-rocket through last year as stablecoin adoption is decoupling from crypto cycles.

Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison (Stripe)

Finance

Coinbase adds stock, ETF trading as it expands beyond crypto

The move pits Coinbase against Robinhood as it pushes to become an “everything exchange.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong speaking to House Speaker Mike Johnson on July 18, 2025. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Markets

Cipher Digital shares rise 6% as the firm rebrands from bitcoin mining to HPC, earnings miss

The company's earnings came in below estimates as the miner leans into large scale data center buildout.

An engineer works with bitcoin mining rigs (Shutterstock)

Finance

Canton advances cross-border repo to free up $300 trillion assets via tokenization

A group of global financial firms tokenized a repo transaction with U.K. government bonds for the first time.

16:9 Pounds (PublicDomainPictures/Pixabay)